Host: Warrawagine Station Written by – Caitlin, Station Hand, Warragine Station. It is officially over, our 2013 season is done and dusted . . . and what a eventful year it has been. We were off to a flying start in April, and by June we had all the cattle done around the homestead. We […]
Host: Liveringa Station Written by – Karen O’Brien, Manager, Liveringa Station. Do you remember our previous hosts Liveringa Station? True to the nature of station life, they were so busy during their hosting week they didn’t have a chance to introduce the whole crew. Now, as the season winds up Karen would like you to […]
Host: Warrawagine Station Written by – Caitlin, Station Hand, Warragine Station. Each year after the breeder cattle around the homestead have been mustered and processed we start to prepare to head out bush. This usually takes a few days, the step deck gets loaded with the portable race, crush, and loader, the ‘wild thing’ gets […]
Host: Warrawagine Station Written by – Caitlin, Station Hand, Warragine Station. During the mustering season we all work long hard days, when all the cattle work is done and the rain starts to fall we get to have a bit of fun. This movie was put together by Ben’s twin brother Alex who is a […]
Host: Warrawagine Station Written by – Caitlin, Station Hand, Warrawagine Station. I don’t think there is any such thing as a normal day on a station. One day, your rip roaring through the wattle after a scrubber and the next day your knee deep in leaves cleaning the pool . . . gotta have some […]
Host: Warrawagine Station Written by – Caitlin, Station Hand, Warragine Station. Being late in the season we have eight people working with us, during peak muster we have up to 20 people working here, these roles range from a motor bike rider, buggie driver, helicopter and fixed wing pilots, preg tester/spey technician, mechanic, grader driver, […]
Host: Yeeda Pastoral Co. Written by – Vicki Burton, Owner, Yeeda Pastoral Co. The Yeeda office is based in Broome and it is from this busy little hub that we run the books of the separate companies that make up the Yeeda group. The office team is made up of Vicki, Viv, Kim, Georgia, and […]
Host: Yeeda Pastoral Co. Written by – Vicki Burton, Owner, Yeeda Pastoral Co. In November last year we opened our first Yeeda Australian Rangeland Meat shop in Broome. It has had fantastic support from locals since day one and we are really happy with how it has taken off. A day in the shop begins […]
Host: Yeeda Pastoral Co. Written by – Vicki Burton, Owner, Yeeda Pastoral Co. Yeeda Pastoral Company purchased Springvale Aggregation from E G Greens (Harvey Beef) in 2003. Springvale was once owned by the legendary stockman Tom Quilty, from 1948 to 1978, Tom and his wife Olive built the homestead as it is today. These days […]
Host: Yeeda Pastoral Co. Written by – Vicki Burton, Owner, Yeeda Pastoral Co. Kilto is a hive of activity; it is the Yeeda Pastoral hub. On Kilto we have our export accredited yard, we grow hay under centre pivot irrigators, it is our truck depot, and our main workshop is run from here. Irrigation Today […]
Host: Yeeda Pastoral Co. Written by – Vicki Burton, Owner, Yeeda Pastoral Co. Yeeda Station has great history, it was the first pastoral lease settled in the Kimberley in 1881. Yeeda is approx. 1 million acres and has the mighty Fitzroy River running through it, so has great flood plain country. The homestead is 50km […]
Host: Mystery Park Written by – Tess Camm, Owner, Mystery Park. With nine different mobs of cattle rotating through our cells (groups of paddocks dedicated to one mob), the grazing plan is always at the forefront of our mind. Nutrition underpins the performance of cattle, and we are paid in cents per kg of beef […]
Host: Mystery Park Written by – Tess Camm, Owner, Mystery Park. While mustering, drafting, weighing, and all hands-on activities are vital operations on a cattle property, this only occupies a portion of a grazier’s to-do list. Livestock waters, supplements, and fences (just to name a few) all require diligent maintenance. As Murphy’s law would have […]
Host: Mystery Park Written by – Tess Camm, Owner, Mystery Park. It’s a steady start getting all the little people’s horses saddled and sorted in the morning, but they more than make up for the effort during the muster! Lending a hand. Today we are mustering a mob of young cows with their first calf […]
Host: Mystery Park Written by – Tess Camm, Owner, Mystery Park. As a grazier, paycheques are few and far between, and most commonly result from the sale of livestock. This time of year is our ‘dry season’, and is often signified by slower sales and less demand for cattle. The market will bounce back as […]
Host: Mystery Park Written by – Tess Camm, Owner, Mystery Park. As we turn off the highway onto the gravel road, the dust flies thick and fast behind us. In my left window I notice a handful of dry cows walking along a cattle pad towards water, dust also settling in their trail. I have […]
Host: Katherine Research Station Written by Jodie Ward – Rangeland Research Officer, Katherine Research Station. Good news! We didn’t burn out the neighbours, we only set the right plots alight and everybody had a good time! (Oh and we finished pasture sampling before we burnt!) With one dozer, one grader, two fire fighting units, six […]
Host: Katherine Research Station Written by Jodie Ward – Rangeland Research Officer, Katherine Research Station. Excuse me there . . . Yes, you in the corner dying – what species are you? As it turns out, pasture species identification in October is not as easy as it is in May or June! At the moment, […]
Host: Katherine Research Station Written by Jodie Ward – Rangeland Research Officer, Katherine Research Station. After another beautiful sunrise this morning we set off again at a cracking pace for my last day in the fencing crew. Yesterday we managed to get most of the pickets in and ran wire out on three sides of […]
Host: Katherine Research Station Written by Jodie Ward – Rangeland Research Officer, Katherine Research Station. Hi everyone, I’m Jodie Ward and I am a Grass Counter. What exactly is, and does, a grass counter do I hear you ask? Well, hopefully by the end of this blog, I will have answered your question! You see, […]
